Shocking news: The speaker gets to pick which definition he’s using. Of course I can authoritatively claim that pansy=wimpy, because I’m the one that fucking said it.
If I said “We played softball against an all-black team. We beat them”, would you act all shocked and go “How dare you use verbiage that could be conveyed as condoning racial violence!”? Everyone else that’s “otherwise intelligent” seems to understand the usage in the context of my post. Why can’t you?
Oh please.
Even IF Chessic’s words “could” be intepreted to mean lets put the fags in boot camp and litterally physically beat the gay out them, if you actually believe thats what he meant you need to go the same camp and get the stupid offenderatti beat out of you.
Boot camps and military training are renowned (and always have been so) for “you think you’ve got shit to complain about? WE will give you some REAL shit to complain about you pansy”. After which, they show the guy bitching that he didnt get croutons with his salad that you can actually survive a whole day without eating. Or the woman that gets upset because her uniform got some dirt on it that you can actually wallow in mud and water all day and it wont kill you.
If you give me salad without croutons I will fucking kill you.
See?
It knocked the pansy right out of him it did. If it can work for him it can work for anyone…
Only steers and queers come from Location: Orlando, Florida, Private Bright!
How about we just say it is only very rarely used to mean gay, about as often as “gay” is used to mean "happy. Here’s a google search for the phrase “he’s such a pansy”. Notice not a single result on the first two pages (I stopped reading after that) is used to mean “gay” rather than simply “soft or weak”.
Anyway, even though it’s true that “pansy” can be used to mean “gay”, it’s a rare usage and you have to be an oversensitive moron to think that Chessic Sense meant it that way here.
Well, before I respond, let’s be clear.
You’re choosing to use the definition of “everyone else” that actually means “a couple of people,” right? After all, it’s up to you!
Nobody’s denying that pansy means wimpy. Of course it does. And why does it? Because it’s historically been used to mean effeminate. And women are weak.
Why do you think calling someone a pansy is the same as calling them wimpy? What’s the connection?
Can I enter the military but still retain my whine fu intact? I need that for complaining about kids on my lawn and people who wear socks with sandals.
“Ugh, these rations are so gross. And the portions are so small!”
Tampons? Isnt that why those things have a string? So you can make the connection?
Yes and no.
Your whine fu does stay intact. But it gets redirected almost exclusively towards the command structure, paperwork, and the stupidity of your fellow grunts.
Only in the National Guard.
Seriously. That was some crazy stretching the OP had going on there. Good stuff.
C’mon… we all know he meant “Have the fattie fat fuck beaten out of them.”
billfish is stretching the OP’s words just as much as the OP stretched Chessic’s. Just because language is used figuratively, that doesn’t mean it isn’t conveying an idea.
I didn’t read the thread until after this thread, but I kind of assumed that the kind of person who seriously says that people need to have the pansy beaten out of them in military service is the kind of hyper masculine, “GO ARMY!” type whose reaction to an effeminate/gay man getting beaten up would be, “Well, go easy on him next time, boys, but damn, did he have to have hair past his EARS? Boy ain’t right.” It just totally wouldn’t surprise me if someone like that did turn out to hate gay people.
Gotta love the gaymilitarydating ad I am getting here. Find a homosexual soldier near you!
And I can also draft a living will online too! Might be good idea incase I don’t survive getting the pansy beaten out of me.
[King Julian]Welcome, giant pansies. Please feel free to bask in my glow.[/KJ]
If a word King Julian uses is wrong, then I don’t wanna be right.
From a botanist’s perspective: Pansies get a bad rap. They’re actually extraordinarily tough little plants.
And what idea, pray tell, is King Julian’s use of it conveying?
Are the writer’s of Madagascar conveying some secret idea with the use of “pansy”? Perhaps you could tell us what it is.